That's was all you read or heard about in the run up to the games. Paranoid Americans practically wanted to in sure the safety of Americans, both participants and spectators. That was all I read or heard. You'd have thought that they want wanted to move the entire American Mediterranean fleet into the Black Sea. Our president as always took the low road or invisible road. Watching the closing ceremonies, there stood the President of the Russian Federation. A great cheer to Omega for their masterfully handling of 100's of a second.